The best Android-powered devices for games

Every year, consumers spend large amounts of money to upgrade their gadgets, mostly concerning geeks and gamers, who value the highest performance of the device. In the Play Store every day there is a lot of quality games from different manufacturers, which should yield Half-Life 2, Portal, gaming company Rockstar, whose brainchild of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is not so long ago came to Android. Moreover, it is not necessary to discuss and quality of such releases, as San Andrea’s version for Android has been ported to next-generation consoles – Xbox One, Playstation 4 and had significant visual advantage over the original version. Now the computer game development can be observed a stagnation: there is no game, causing “wow effect”, so during this time in Android-smartphone has a chance to catch up a little gaming industry giants, and they have it pretty well so far. But what most deeply best Android-powered devices – disclose all potential game Android?

Best Android-powered devices – NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet

“Green” company is an authoritative person in game, it’s all respect for the progressive development of their own technologies, it would be nice to see in the future, advanced physics engine PhysX games for Android-devices. The first and rather featureless step the company has made a long time ago, with the release of the first version of the processor Tegra, but with the advent of Tegra 2 joined the company in the production of smartphones: Tegra 2 processor was the first company that supports smartphones and tablets not only, moreover, Tegra 2 was the the first dual-core processor for general use. The next generation of processors, Tegra 3, made a good impression on the audience, however, experience has shown that these processors are very fond of the battery and get very warm even in dealing with primitive tasks.

Then came the turn 4 and Tegra Tegra K1. Each new series of processors is getting better and better, and K1 is no exception, in fact, K1 is by far the most efficient processors on the market Android, and SHIELD Tablet is the first device running on a given processor. It should be noted, some users complain about the heat and not a very good relationship with the charge the battery, but it’s probably “sore” all Tegra-smartphones.

SHIELD Tablet, everything else, one of the first games was supported by Valve, he has an extensive integration with the streaming service NVIDIA, the plate installed proprietary applications company, including his own shop, where all the games are optimized for Tegra-processors. Moving on to the next device, it is worth recalling the characteristics of SHIELD. It has 2 GB of RAM, an 8-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200; processor Tegra K1 with a frequency of 2.2 GHz. SHIELD Tablet runs on stock Android and recently received the Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Best Android-powered devices – Xiaomi Mi Pad

Mi Pad – this is the first experience in the manufacture of tablets Xiaomi. Usually feelings market manufacturers produce low cost device at a low price, in order to analyze the response of consumers, but Xiaomi not the company that will deal with a similar, if release – that produce a quality product at a top price of the budgetary system. Such a policy will lead to great success Xiaomi not only in the Chinese market, but also in Europe and in Russia, including, of course, if the company will enter our market. Mi Pad is equipped with the same processor as the NVIDIA SHIELD – Nvidia K1, RAM 2 GB; the screen size is 7.9 inches, and resolution as much as 2048 x 1536. Also Mi Pad is equipped with a proprietary shell Miui V6, which was flat in the design and became largely similar to the “apple” of the system. Due to a rather demanding shell and higher resolution screen tablet less Hustler in games than its competitor – SHIELD Tablet. If you like the design features of the company, including those relating to the shell itself, the Mi Pad will suit you more, plus everything – it is much cheaper SHIELD Tablet.

Best Android-powered devices – Nexus 9

Not long ago, Google together with HTC introduced the world to its new tablet Nexus 9 who received Nexus-like design. Many say that the device has a myriad of advantages, but it is not ideal. CPU temperature, problems with the assembly, gluttony – is raising questions among users. Yes, the problem with the assembly resolved, however, by the old parties still need to get rid of, and there is no guarantee that you will fall Nexus 9 is the new parties.

With regards to performance – everything is quite as expected: the processor, you guessed it, the same Nvidia Tegra K1, which became the cause of all the minuses – except build quality – and at the same time the advantages of the device. Nexus 9 – very bright, the interface works perfectly smoothly. Other characteristics of the tablet are identical Mi Pad, except for the frequency of the processor, which is 100 MHz more. In this case, the device behaves worse games Mi Pad, oddly enough, but overall the results are almost identical and the difference is not so significant. However, too high a price, which is, and so, according to some rumors, would be even higher, will not make the tablet popular in Russia and abroad, because the “nexus” has always been famous for the low price. Now the price is all top-end devices, but people on a subconscious level happened that Nexus – it’s cheap, and buying cheap is expensive for the consumer will not.

Best Android-powered devices – Nexus 6

In this list yet found a place … smartphone with a diagonal of 6 inches. It turns out quite interesting: if before the Nexus 7 was considered a full-fledged tablet, but now it can be classified as “Phablet” and previous 7 inches plates shifted in a big way, and now we are more likely to occur 8-9 inches diagonal. The device has a 5.96-inch AMOLED-display with a resolution of 1440 x 2560, the processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 with a frequency of 2.7 GHz and 3 GB of RAM.

Best Android-powered devices – Nexus 7 (2013)

The reason for the inclusion of the tablet and then you will come to the aid of the Nexus 7 2013, which has support for Android 5.0, which is a plus. The processor is a simplified version of Snapdragon 600 RAM in the device as much as 2 gigabytes, screen resolution of 1920 x 1200. Not bad for best Android-powered devices, right?

The best Android-powered devices for games